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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
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
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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
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
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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