The greatness of a life can ...

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.
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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The knowledge which 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 need.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
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