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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach

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