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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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 shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
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
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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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