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 LEIBNIZVirtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The present is great with the future.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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.
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