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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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 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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Age Last Time Words
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
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
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
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
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood

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