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Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Gottfried Leibniz

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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Infinity Judgment
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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Form
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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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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Form Substance
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Delight
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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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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End Interfere
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Production
There is nothing without a reason.

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There is nothing without a reason.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Resemble
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

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It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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Certain Order
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.

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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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Delight Oneself
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

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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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Chaos Confusion Wasted
There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Confusion

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