Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZVirtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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