The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZGod’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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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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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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