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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEA man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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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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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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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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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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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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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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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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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.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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