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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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
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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
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
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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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World

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