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

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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