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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
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
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
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
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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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Dupes Secret Usual
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
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

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