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He who hasn't tasted bitter th...

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

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God, possessing supreme and in...

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

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All things in God are spontane...

All things in God are spontaneous.

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God makes nothing without orde...

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

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There is nothing waste, nothin...

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

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Nature does not make leaps....

Nature does not make leaps.

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In my judgment an organic mach...

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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The dot was introduced as a sy...

The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: 'I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x...

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Therefore, I have attacted [th...

Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret.
Acta eruditorum

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The past is pregnant with the ...

The past is pregnant with the present.

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Each portion of matter may be ...

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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Every present state of a simpl...

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

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The soul is the mirror of an i...

The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology.

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To love is to take delight in ...

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

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I am so in favor of the actua...

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

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Of what use would it be to you...

Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?

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But in simple substances the i...

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

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To love is to place our happin...

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

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