He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZJustice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The present is great with the future.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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