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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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We should like Nature to go no further we should like it to be finite, like our mind but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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