Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing 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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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