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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Inspirational Mind Motivation
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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Elephants Feet Firsts
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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood

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