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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!

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
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
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
Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice 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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach

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