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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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Math Mind Reflect Time
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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