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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils

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