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We live in the best of all possible worlds.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Destroy Philosophy Soul Spiritual Universe
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Hard Time Himself Sweet Taste Wisdom
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Original Primary Production Simplicity Unity
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 Hold Myself Nature Perfection
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Necessary Possible
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
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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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Demand Existence Possible
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Genuine Hold Mark Myself Nature Possible Reason
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Diminsh Discover Greatness Nature Photograph Thinking Wonderful
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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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
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 Myself Perfection Understand
Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time

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