It Is Unworthy Of Excellent Men To

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 Makes Nothing Without Order, And Everything That Forms Itself Develops Imperceptibly Out Of Small Parts.

There Are Two Famous Labyrinths Where Our Reason Very Often Goes Astray. One Concerns The Great Question Of The Free And The Necessary, Above All In The Production And The Origin Of Evil. The Other Consists In The Discussion Of Continuity, And Of The Indivisibles Which Appear To Be The Elements Thereof, And Where The Consideration Of The Infinite Must Enter In.

I Also Take It As Granted That Every Created Thing, And Consequently The Created Monad Also, Is Subject To Change, And Indeed That This Change Is Continual In Each One.

There Are Also Two Kinds Of Truths, Those Of Reasoning And Those Of Fact. Truths Of Reasoning Are Necessary And Their Opposite Is Impossible, And Those Of Fact Are Contingent And Their Opposite Is Possible. When A Truth Is Necessary Its Reason Can Be Found By Analysis, Resolving It Into More Simple Ideas And Truths Until We Reach Those Which Are Primitive.