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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Define Delight Happiness Love Myself True
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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Author Ignorance Infinite Mindset Nature Ourselves
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness Present
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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Future Present Simplicity State Substance
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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Clear Different Form Ideas Soul Species Yourself
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
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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Accomplishment Greatness Law Nature Oneself
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True
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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Animal Garden Humor Plants Portion
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Existence Hold Order Space Success Time
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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Follow God Limitation Perfection Positive Reality
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
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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God Human Natural Religion Soul
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World

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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