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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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All things in God are spontaneous.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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