Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of 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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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 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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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