What is is what must be.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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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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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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