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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Discover Labor Mindset Wonderful Worth
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Destiny God Himself Knowledge Regulation Work
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Clear Different Form Ideas Science Soul Yourself
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Author Hold Myself Nature Perfection
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Change Creation Myself Philosophy Subject
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory
All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God One Liner
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Heart Love Place
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Human Material Natural Religion Soul
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted

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