There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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