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The past is pregnant with the present.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself Opinion See Source
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Certain Destiny God Himself Work
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Creation Dependent Impossible Influence Oneself Way
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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Attachment Happiness Open Problem Secret
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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Divisible Element Extension Nature Part Shape
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 Mirror Soul Universe
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor Greatness Kill People
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Finding Happiness Love Pleasure
The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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Divine Finding Imagination Negative Spirit Unity
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Knowledge Man Time Understand Wisdom
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development Form God Order Small
What is what must be.
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The past is pregnant with the present.

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