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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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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Lover Math Principles
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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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Death Men Succeed Usual
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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