To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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