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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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 takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
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
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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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 high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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Age Last Time Words
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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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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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows

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