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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
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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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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future 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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Age Last Time Words
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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

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