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 LEIBNIZTo 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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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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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. 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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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The present is great with the future.
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