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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself Opinion See Source
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave
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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Creation Dependent Impossible Influence Oneself Way
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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God Miracle Nature Power Wisdom Work
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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Attachment Happiness Open Problem Secret
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Alone Creation God Primary Production
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Live Possible World
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Experience Fact Genuine Hold Mark Nature Teaching
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Dreams Enough Life Myself Physical Reason
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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Beginning Form Simplicity Substance
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Exception Finding Oneself Reality

To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

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