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• Las mujeres reaccionan de forma diferente: una francesa que se vea traicionada por su marido matará a su amante; una italiana matará a su marido; una española matará a ambos; y una alemana se suicidará.

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  Husband, Italian, Mistress

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• 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, Science, Our World

  "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology". Book by Mark Brake, 2012.

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

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  Happiness, Too Much, Obstacles

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• 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, Doe, Philosopher

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• Una mente educada está, por así decirlo, compuesta de todas las mentes de épocas anteriores.

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  Mind, Age, Educated Mind

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• Se necesita tiempo para arruinar un mundo, pero el tiempo es todo lo que se necesita.

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  Liberty, World, Libertarian

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• Para ser feliz, hay que tener buen estómago y mal corazón.

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  Happiness, Heart, Stomach

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• People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

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  Knowing, People, Done

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• Un verdadero filósofo es como un elefante: nunca pone el segundo pie en el suelo hasta que el primero está bien asentado.

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  Elephants, Feet, Firsts

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• Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

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  Future, Know How, Knows

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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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  Age, Last Words

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• There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

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  Art, Understanding, Three

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• Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

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  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Natural

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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, Truth, Hands

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• La modestia en la mujer tiene dos ventajas especiales: realza la belleza y oculta la incomodidad.

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  Two, Special, Veils

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• A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

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  Heaven, Earth, Fool

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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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  Years, Virtue, Hundred

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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.

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  Time, Math, Mind

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• 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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  Land, Feet, Pleasure

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• 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

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• 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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  Passion, Ambition, Astronomy

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• Los matemáticos son como los amantes. Concede a un matemático el más mínimo principio, y extraerá de él una consecuencia que tú también deberás concederle, y de esta consecuencia otra.

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  Math, Principles, Lovers

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• La pulcritud es una gracia suprema de la feminidad.

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  Grace, Womanhood, Neatness

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• No siento nada, aparte de cierta dificultad para seguir existiendo.

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  Certain, Last Words, Difficulty

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• I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

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  Hate, War, Conversation

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