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“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays

“Nihil est sine ratione.
[There is nothing without a reason.]”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philosophical Essays

“The present is big with the future.”
― Leibniz., Philosophical Writings

“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Pourquoi y a-t-il quelque chose plutôt que rien ?”
― Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm

“Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)”
― voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary