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There is nothing without a reason.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
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
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
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
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
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Evidence Hold Perfection Understand
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complaint Philosophy Yourself
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Awareness Counting Experience Human Mindset Music Pleasure
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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God Human Natural Religion Soul
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
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
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Demonstration Mindset Reason Understand
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

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