Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWhen 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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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What is is what must be.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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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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