A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.

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.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.