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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
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
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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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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
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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