Men Act Like Brutes In So Far

All The Different Classes Of Beings Which Taken Together Make Up The Universe Are, In The Ideas Of God Who Knows Distinctly Their Essential Gradations, Only So Many Ordinates Of A Single Curve So Closely United That It Would Be Impossible To Place Others Between Any Two Of Them, Since That Would Imply Disorder And Imperfection. Thus Men Are Linked With The Animals, These With The Plants And These With The Fossils Which In Turn Merge With Those Bodies Which Our Senses And Our Imagination Represent To Us As Absolutely Inanimate.

The Knowledge Which We Have Acquired Ought Not To Resemble A Great Shop Without Order, And Without An Inventory; We Ought To Know What We Possess, And Be Able To Make It Serve Us In Need.

Virtue Is The Habit Of Acting According To Wisdom.

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.

..this Is Why The Ultimate Reason Of Things Must Lie In A Necessary Substance, In Which The Differentiation Of The Changes Only Exists Eminently As In Their Source; And This Is What We Call God.