Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZFor 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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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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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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