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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Gottfried Leibniz

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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Follow God Limitation Perfection Positive Reality
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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Divisible Element Extension Nature Part Shape
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness Present
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Easy Fools Original Wisdom
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
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 has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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Body End Human Interfere Nature Ridiculous Soul
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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Compound Simplicity Substance Talk
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Live Possible World
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
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
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom

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