Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZGod makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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What is is what must be.
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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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus 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 place happiness in the heart of another.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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