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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development Form God Order Small
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Alone Creation God Primary Production
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
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Easy Fools Original Wisdom
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Believe Evil Goodness Necessary Possible Production
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Existence Hold Order Space Success Time
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Convince Knowledge Quantity Record Wealth Writing
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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