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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

What is what must be.

Gottfried Leibniz

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  I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

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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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  If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

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