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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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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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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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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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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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