There Is No Way In Which A

All Things In God Are Spontaneous.

Let There Be Two Possible Things, A And B, One Of Which Is Such That It Is Necessary That It Exists, And Let Us Assume That There Is More Perfection In A Than In B. Then, At Least, We Can Explain Why A Should Exist Rather Than B And Can Foresee Which Of Them Will Exist; Indeed, This Can Be Demonstrated, That Is, Rendered Certain From The Nature Of The Thing.

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.

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

Men Act Like Brutes In So Far As The Sequences Of Their Perceptions Arise Through The Principle Of Memory Only, Like Those Empirical Physicians Who Have Mere Practice Without Theory.