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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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