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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?

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
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
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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