Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Happiness Quotes

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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. Thus the habit of loving someone is nothing other than BENEVOLENCE by which we want the good of others, not for the profit that we gain from it, but because it is agreeable to us in itself.
CHARITY is a general benevolence. And JUSTICE is charity in accordance with wisdom. … so that one does not do harm to someone without necessity, and that one does as much good as one can, but especially where it is best employed.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Theologian: But what is to love?
Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz