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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Gottfried Leibniz

He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
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
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Convince Knowledge Quantity Record Wealth Writing
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
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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Expression Future Near Past Present Reading
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
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Animal Garden Humor Plants Portion
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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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Live Possible World
A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Clear Distinction Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Dreams Enough Life Myself Physical Reason
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
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Count Music Pleasure Unconscious

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

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