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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

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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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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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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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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.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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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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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.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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 words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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