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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils

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