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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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What is is what must be.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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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 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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Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
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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