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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Gottfried Leibniz

It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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Body End Human Interfere Nature Ridiculous Soul
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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Future Present Simplicity State Substance
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
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Certain Destiny God Himself Work
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
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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Capacity Horizon Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Alone Creation God Primary Production
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World

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