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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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