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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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Elephants Feet Firsts
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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Running Science Self
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 detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
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 takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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