To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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