The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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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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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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