I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.