The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.