I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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What is is what must be.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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