The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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The present is great with the future.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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What is what must be.
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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