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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Gottfried Leibniz

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Infinity Judgment Machine Past Present Time
All things in God are spontaneous.
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God One Liner Spontaneous
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
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Finding Happiness Love Pleasure
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
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development Form God Order Small
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
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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God Miracle Nature Power Wisdom Work
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
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
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness Present
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Live Possible World
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
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Beginning Form Simplicity Substance
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself Opinion See Source
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor Greatness Kill People

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

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