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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The present is great with the future.
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