Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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What is is what must be.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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