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 LEIBNIZ
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Nothing 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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What is is what must be.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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