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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 Leibniz

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labour Mindset Wonderful Worth
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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Choice Existence God Possible Willing
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Appearance Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Peace Perfection Writing
Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Convince Knowledge Quantity Record Wealth Writing
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Alone Creation God Primary Production
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
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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Action Estimate Greatness Life Ourselves Time
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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Change Creation Grant Oneself Subject
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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Body Dreams Each Other Perfection Phenomena Soul Substance
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Easy Fools Original Wisdom

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