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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed Usual
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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Home Memories Motivational
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach

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