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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
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Geometry Hands Math Work
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual
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
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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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
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
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven

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