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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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Bagwalas

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Ridicule
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Knows
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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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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Last Words
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher
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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Elephants Feet Firsts
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Philosopher
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Fool
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Math Principles
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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Motivation
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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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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Succeed Usual
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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