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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Destiny God Himself Knowledge Regulation Work
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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