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Gottfried Leibniz

Quote of Gottfried Leibniz - To love is to find pleasure...


Biography - Gottfried Leibniz:

German polymath and philosopher.
Born: 1646 - Died: 1716
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Aimer, c'est se réjouir du bonheur d'un autre.

German
Lieben heißt, unser Glück in das Glück eines anderen zu legen.




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To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.

My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.




Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.











Quotes

Gottfried Leibniz also said...


Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.





Nature does not make jumps.





The present is big with the future; the future could be read in the past; the distant is expressed in the near.





Everything is ordered in things once and for all, with as much order and agreement as possible.





Everything that is possible demands to exist.





So far we have just spoken as simple physicists; now we must rise to metaphysics, by making use of the great principle, little used, commonly, that nothing takes place without sufficient reason, that is, that nothing happens without it being possible for someone who knows enough things to give a reason sufficient to determine why it is so and not otherwise.












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