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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Gottfried Leibniz

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.
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Dreams Enough Life Myself Physical Reason
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Fine Imagination Spirit Wonderful
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
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
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Music Unconscious
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor Greatness Kill People
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complaint Philosophy Yourself
What is what must be.
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One Liner
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Exception Finding Oneself Reality
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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Author Infinite Nature Order Perfection
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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Creation Dependent Impossible Influence Oneself Way
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
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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Choice Existence God Possible Willing

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