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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.

I Agree With You That It Is Important To Examine Our Presuppositions, Throughly And Once For All, In Order To Establish Something Solid. For I Hold That It Is Only When We Can Prove All That We Bring Forward That We Perfectly Understand The Thing Under Consideration. I Know That The Common Herd Takes Little Pleasure In These Researches, But I Know Also That The Common Herd Take Little Pains Thoroughly To Understand Things.

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.

To Love Is To Be Delighted By The Happiness Of Someone, Or To Experience Pleasure Upon The Happiness Of Another. I Define This As True Love.

In Whatever Manner God Created The World, It Would Always Have Been Regular And In A Certain General Order. God, However, Has Chosen The Most Perfect, That Is To Say, The One Which Is At The Same Time The Simplest In Hypothesis And The Richest In Phenomena.