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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Funny Hands Truth
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
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
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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Running Science Self
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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
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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