Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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