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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
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
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
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
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Count Music Pleasure Unconscious
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
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
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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Different Nature Possible Quality
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labour Mindset Wonderful Worth
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
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
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Fake Greatness Ground Judgement Principle Reason True

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