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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

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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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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?
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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.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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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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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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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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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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