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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Gottfried Leibniz

There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
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
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Easy Fools Original Wisdom
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
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
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
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Absolute Birth Call Death Development Strict
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
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
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
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
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Peace Perfection Writing
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Alone Creation God Primary Production
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe

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