The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe 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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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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 worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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