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What is is what must be.
Nature does not make leaps.
There is nothing without reason.
All things in God are spontaneous.
The present is great with the future.
The past is pregnant with the present.
We live in the best of all possible worlds
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
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.
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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.
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.