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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Body Born Death Development Growth Separate Soul
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Necessary Possible
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Miracle Order Power Thinking Wisdom
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth
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
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
There is nothing without reason.
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Karma One Liner Reason
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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Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
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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Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way
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 Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
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 Philosophy Plant
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness One Liner Present
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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God Original Primary Production Simplicity Unity
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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Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Philosophy Question
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Achievement Admire Himself Man Time Understand