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

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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