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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZJustice 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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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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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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What is is what must be.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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