We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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