Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The present is great with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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