It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo 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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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