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A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes. - [Beauty : Charm] A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. - [Flattery] 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. - [Cultivation] Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] - attributed to, who disclaimed it [Folly] If I held all of truth in my hand I would beware of opening it to men. [Fr., Si je tenais toutes les verites dans ma main, je me donnerais bien de garde de l'ouvrir aux hommes.] - [Truth] It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. - [Anticipation] It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm. - [Beauty] Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness. - [Modesty] 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. - [Death] Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood. - [Neatness] 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! - [Ambition] 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. - [Judgment] There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.] - Oeuvres--Dialogues des Morts (IV, 32), (ed. 1825) [Ridicule]
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