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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
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
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Life Science Watches
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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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!
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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood

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