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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

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
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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Certain Establishment Goodness Order Progress
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
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
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
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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Demonstration Mindset Reason Understand
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself Opinion See Source
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Peace Perfection Writing
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Finding Happiness Love Pleasure
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Change Creation Grant Oneself Subject
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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Body Dreams Each Other Perfection Phenomena Soul Substance
All things in God are spontaneous.
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God One Liner Spontaneous
I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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Body Perception Sort Worm

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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