The soul follows its own laws, and the body also follows its own laws, and they agree with each other by virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Early Modern

Calculus, optimism

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Monadology, Section 78

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1714

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