The present is great with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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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.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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