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 LEIBNIZGod makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The present is great with the future.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Our 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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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What is what must be.
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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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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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