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As there are an infinity of possible worlds, there are also an infinity of laws, certain ones appropriate to one; others, to another, and each possible individual of any world involves in its concept the laws of its world.

— Gottfried Leibniz

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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.

The Monadology (1714)

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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