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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Math Mind Reflect Time
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
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
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
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 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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher

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