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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Age Last Time Words
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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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Death Men Succeed Usual
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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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Life Science Watches
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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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Inspirational Mind Motivation

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