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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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