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 LEIBNIZAll things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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