Nature does not make leaps.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZVirtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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I 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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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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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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