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Last updated on March 20th, 2017

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.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees,

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of