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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 feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
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

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