Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZTo love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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There is nothing without reason.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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