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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is great with the future.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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