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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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