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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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 beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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Math Mind Reflect Time
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence 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
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars

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