The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZGod makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its 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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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