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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Knowledge Nothing Science World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding

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