Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZTo 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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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 do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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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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It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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