To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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