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There is nothing without reason.

Gottfried Leibniz

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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Compound Simplicity Substance Talk
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Define Delight Happiness Love Myself True
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
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
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Experience Fact Genuine Hold Mark Nature Teaching
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Beginning God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
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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Delight Happiness Love Oneself
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
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
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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Collection Compound Simplicity Substance
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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Attachment Happiness Open Problem Secret
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
In 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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Advantage Diminish Greatness Observation Wonderful

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