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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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God Human Material Natural Religion Soul
Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Choice Easy Original Wisdom
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music Soul
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Act Habit Virtue Wisdom
..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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Call Change Existence God Necessary Reason Substance Ultimate
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Destiny God Himself Knowledge Regulation Work
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Original Primary Production Simplicity Unity
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Body Born Death Development Growth Separate Soul
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Miracle Order Power Thinking Wisdom
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Achievement Admire Himself Man Time Understand
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Mathematics Music Myself Problem Secret Soul Unconscious

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