The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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.
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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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