Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZVirtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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What is is what must be.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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