It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

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.