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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.

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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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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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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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 the passions that do and undo everything.
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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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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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