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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music Soul
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.
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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
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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Important Invention Myself See Source
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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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
All things in God are spontaneous.
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God One Liner
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Delight Experience Happiness Love Myself True
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Body Born Death Development Growth Separate Soul
Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Deep Fact Kind Reason Truth
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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Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way

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