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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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 the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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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 be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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