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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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 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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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