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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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The present is great with the future.
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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 am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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