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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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Follow God Limitation Perfection Positive Reality
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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Attachment Happiness Open Problem Secret
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Finding Happiness Love Pleasure
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
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
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Evidence Hold Perfection Understand
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Beginning Form Simplicity Substance
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Experience Fact Genuine Hold Mark Nature Teaching
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Appearance Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
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
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Change Creation Grant Oneself Subject
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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Compound Simplicity Substance Talk

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