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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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Feet Land Pleasure
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 man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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 takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Knowledge Nothing Science World
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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

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