"The monads are the true atoms of nature, and, in a word, the elements of things."

"Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, yo…"

"The present is big with the future."

"Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."

"The universe is a plenum, in which all bodies are connected, and each affects all the others."