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  • Leibniz n'e  tait point marie  ; il y avait pense   a'   l'a"  ge de cinquante ans; mais la personne qu'il avait en vue voulut avoir le temps de faire ses re  flexions. Cela donne a' Leibniz le loisir de faire aussi les siennes, et il ne se maria point. Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty, but the person he had in mind desired time to think about it. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, also, and he didn't marry.

    - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
    EŁ   loge des acade  miciens, Leibniz.

  • How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

    - Logan Pearsall Smith
    Afterthoughts,'Life and Human Nature'.

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