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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZHe who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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