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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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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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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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