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Everything that is possible demands to exist.

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Miracles are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

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All things in the whole wide world happen mathematically.

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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

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He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

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I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.

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God forbid; we should have neither science nor law, nay, not even reason.

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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

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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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Even in the games of children there are things to interest the greatest mathematician.

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Theologian: But what is to love?
Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.

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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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There is an old saying that God created everything according to weight, measure and number.

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Two things are identical if one can be substituted for the other without affecting the truth.

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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

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The machines of nature, namely, living bodies, are still machines in their smallest parts ad infinitum.

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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

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Those few things having been considered, the whole matter is reduced to pure geometry, which is the one aim of physics and mechanics.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz