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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Death Men Succeed Usual
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Art Degree Future Invented Moo
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Hundred Virtue Years
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Special Two Veils
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
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
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles