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I Am Convinced That The Unwritten Knowledge Scattered Among Men Of Different Callings Surpasses In Quantity And In Importance Anything We Find In Books, And That The Greater Part Of Our Wealth Has Yet To Be Recorded.

It Is God Who Is The Ultimate Reason Things, And The Knowledge Of God Is No Less The Beginning Of Science Than His Essence And Will Are The Beginning Of Things.

Reality Cannot Be Found Except In One Single Source, Because Of The Interconnection Of All Things With One Another.

I Do Not Believe That A World Without Evil, Preferable In Order To Ours, Is Possible; Otherwise It Would Have Been Preferred. It Is Necessary To Believe That The Mixture Of Evil Has Produced The Greatest Possible Good: Otherwise The Evil Would Not Have Been Permitted. The Combination Of All The Tendencies To The Good Has Produced The Best; But As There Are Goods That Are Incompatible Together, This Combination And This Result Can Introduce The Destruction Of Some Good, And As A Result Some Evil.

To Love Is To Find Pleasure In The Happiness Of Others.