I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, f… - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1 July 1646 {21 June O.S.} – 14 November 1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician.

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Alternative Names: Gottfried Wilhelm • Leibniz • Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz • Freiherr Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz • Gottfried Leibniz • Leibnitz

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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.

Pourquoi y a-t-il quelque chose plutôt que rien ?

cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil

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