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There is nothing without a reason.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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Delight Experience Happiness Love Myself True
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Call Change Existence God Necessary Reason Substance Ultimate
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complain Philosophy See Yourself
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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Animal Destroy Philosophy Soul Spiritual Universe
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
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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Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
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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Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Animal Appearance Chaos Confusion Creation Death Live Save Universe Wasted World
The present is great with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Future Greatness One Liner Present
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Hard Time Himself Sweet Taste Wisdom
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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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
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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Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way

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