To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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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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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 past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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