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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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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
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.
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Inspirational Mind Motivation
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Knowledge Nothing Science World
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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Knowing Pretension Speak
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
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Geometry Hands Math Work
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
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
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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Feet Land Pleasure
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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