The past is pregnant with the present.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo 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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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