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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Music Unconscious
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
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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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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Divisible Element Extension Nature Part Shape
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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Animal Known Large Ordinary Ourselves Ready System
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Absolute Birth Call Death Development Strict
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
Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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Condition Destroy God Time Yourself
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
In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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Choice Creation God Perfection Phenomena Regular World
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Count Music Pleasure Unconscious
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe

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