It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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