"It is the passions that do and undo…" — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

"It is the passions that do and undo everything."

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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31 Quotes by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a…
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and…
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause.…
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they…
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the…
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one…
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak…

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