Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIn 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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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What is what must be.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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