It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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What is is what must be.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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