Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
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I see the universe so large... that I know not where I am, or what will become of me.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
We think ourselves unhappy when a comet appears; but it is the comet itself which is unfortunate.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
You must go a great way to prove that the Earth may be a Planet, the Planets so many Earths, and all the Stars Worlds.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
How vast then! And beyond all reckoning, and beyond all mensuration must the spaces of the universe be!
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Men may say of marriage and women what they please: they will renounce neither the one nor the other.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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