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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
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
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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Elephants Feet Firsts
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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
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
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven

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