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.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Nature does not make leaps.

The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: "I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.