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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZVirtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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What is what must be.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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