The 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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What is is what must be.
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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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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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