To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

The present is great with the future.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.

Let there be two possible things, A and B, one of which is such that it is necessary that it exists, and let us assume that there is more perfection in A than in B. Then, at least, we can explain why A should exist rather than B and can foresee which of them will exist; indeed, this can be demonstrated, that is, rendered certain from the nature of the thing.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.