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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
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
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
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Music Unconscious
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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Author Infinite Nature Order Perfection
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.
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Fake Greatness Ground Judgement Principle Reason True
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Accomplishment Greatness Law Nature Oneself
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Peace Perfection Writing
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Live Possible World
What is what must be.
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One Liner
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
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
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

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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