A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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There is nothing without reason.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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