Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMen act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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