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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIn 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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There is nothing without a reason.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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