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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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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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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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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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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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