Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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