Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

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.

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.