He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWe 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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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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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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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What is is what must be.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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