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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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