What did Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle mean by: An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages. - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France Copy
+ A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Earth, Fool, Heaven, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
+ Nature is never so admired as when she is understood. Feraz Zeid, September 7, 2023December 26, 2023, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Natural, Nature, Science, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
+ I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Regret, Silence, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
+ It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Libertarian, Liberty, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
+ If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Funny, Hands, Truth, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
+ A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Voice, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
+ Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Veils, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
+ It is the passions that do and undo everything. Feraz Zeid, July 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Passion, 0 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Author · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
