Justice Is Charity In Accordance With Wisdom.

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.

It Has Long Seemed Ridiculous To Me To Suppose That The Nature Of Things Has Been So Poor And Stingy That It Provided Souls Only To Such A Trifling Mass Of Bodies On Our Globe, Like Human Bodies, When It Could Have Given Them To All, Without Interfering With Its Other Ends.

We Live In The Best Of All Possible Worlds

Now, As There Is An Infinity Of Possible Universes In The Ideas Of God, And As Only One Of Them Can Exist, There Must Be A Sufficient Reason For God's Choice, Which Determines Him Toward One Rather Than Another. And This Reason Can Be Found Only In The Fitness, Or The Degrees Of Perfection, That These Worlds Contain, Since Each Possible Thing Has The Right To Claim Existence In Proportion To The Perfection It Involves.

And There Must Be Simple Substances, Because There Are Compounds; For The Compound Is Nothing But A Collection Or Aggregatum Of Simples.