Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZOur reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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