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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
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
Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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Condition Destroy God Time Yourself
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
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
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
There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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Choice Creation God Perfection Phenomena Regular World
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
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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Author Infinite Nature Order Perfection
What is what must be.
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One Liner
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.
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Certain Establishment Goodness Order Progress

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