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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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The present is great with the future.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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 be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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