Great Throughts Treasury
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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also called Bernard de Bouyer
French Author
"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness."
"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."
"It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes."
"It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much."
"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."