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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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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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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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