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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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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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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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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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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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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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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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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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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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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