He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZVirtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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 no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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