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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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Divisible Element Extension Nature Part Shape
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Animal Known Large Ordinary Ourselves Ready System
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Finding Happiness Love Pleasure
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
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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Collection Compound Simplicity Substance
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Knowledge Man Time Understand Wisdom
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True
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
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labour Mindset Wonderful Worth
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Advantage Diminish Greatness Observation Wonderful

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

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