To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIn symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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In 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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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