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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor Greatness Kill People
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development Form God Order Small
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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Fake Greatness Ground Judgement Principle Reason True
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
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Beginning God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
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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Absolute Birth Call Death Development Strict
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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Clear Different Form Ideas Soul Species Yourself
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
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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God Human Natural Religion Soul
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness Present
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Easy Fools Original Wisdom

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