Fontenelle Quotes (4 Quotes)

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

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.

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

Exactness is the sublimity of fools.