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The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

— Gottfried Leibniz Closing sentence of the Preface to the general science (1677)

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And as every present state of a simple substance is naturally a consequence of its preceding state, so its present is pregnant with its future.

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Everything that is possible demands to exist.

De veritatibus primis (1686)

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Discours de métaphysique (1686)

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

De rerum originatione radicali (1697)

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