To Love Is To Find Pleasure In

These Principles Have Given Me A Way Of Explaining Naturally The Union Or Rather The Mutual Agreement [conformité] Of The Soul And The Organic Body. The Soul Follows Its Own Laws, And The Body Likewise Follows Its Own Laws; And They Agree With Each Other In Virtue Of The Pre-established Harmony Between All Substances, Since They Are All Representations Of One And The Same Universe.

He Who Hasn't Tasted Bitter Things Hasn't Earned Sweet Things.

..this Is Why The Ultimate Reason Of Things Must Lie In A Necessary Substance, In Which The Differentiation Of The Changes Only Exists Eminently As In Their Source; And This Is What We Call God.

There Is A Certain Destiny Of Everything, Regulated By The Foreknowledge And Providence Of God In His Works.

I Do Not Believe That A World Without Evil, Preferable In Order To Ours, Is Possible; Otherwise It Would Have Been Preferred. It Is Necessary To Believe That The Mixture Of Evil Has Produced The Greatest Possible Good: Otherwise The Evil Would Not Have Been Permitted. The Combination Of All The Tendencies To The Good Has Produced The Best; But As There Are Goods That Are Incompatible Together, This Combination And This Result Can Introduce The Destruction Of Some Good, And As A Result Some Evil.