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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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