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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Art Three Understanding
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
Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
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
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
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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Inspirational Mind Motivation
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo