To love is to take delight in the happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness one’s own
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Topics: Romance, Love
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Topics: Innovation, Originality
The knowledge we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in our need.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Topics: Knowledge
It is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of beings.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Topics: Doctors
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