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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Change Existence God Lying Necessary Reason Source Ultimate
There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Clear Distinction Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Animal Known Large Ordinary Ourselves Ready System
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
I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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Body Perception Sort Worm
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
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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Collection Compound Simplicity Substance
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

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