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I detest war; it ruins conversation

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence 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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War

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