To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery 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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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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