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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
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
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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.
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Home Memories Motivational
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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Art Degree Future Invented Moo

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