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 LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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What is is what must be.
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