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 LEIBNIZJustice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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