Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZAlthough 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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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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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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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What is is what must be.
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