It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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