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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The present is great with the future.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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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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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