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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them,

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees,

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty;