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It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

Gottfried Leibniz

It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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Body End Human Interfere Nature Ridiculous Soul
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
God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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God Himself Relation Subject Work
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Dreams Enough Life Myself Physical Reason
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Expression Future Near Past Present Reading
There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
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
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Beginning God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
What is what must be.
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One Liner
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
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Invention Knowledge Need Resemble Service
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Capacity Horizon Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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Different Nature Possible Quality

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