God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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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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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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