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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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