But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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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