Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
- Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il es… - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il es…
It is the passions that do and undo everything. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory. - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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