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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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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Life Science Watches
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Home Memories Motivational
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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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Feet Land Pleasure
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
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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Age Last Time Words
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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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Geometry Hands Math Work
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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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
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
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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Math Mind Reflect Time
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness

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