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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Gottfried Leibniz

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Appearance Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Existence Hold Order Space Success Time
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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Demonstration Mindset Reason Understand
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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Action Estimate Greatness Life Ourselves Time
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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Follow God Limitation Perfection Positive Reality
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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Clear Different Form Ideas Soul Species Yourself
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Expression Future Near Past Present Reading
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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God Human Natural Religion Soul
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness Present
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Music Unconscious
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself

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