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# Catalogue record: 38782 — Leibniz an Vincent Placcius
# Incipit: Quanquam Spinosa pulchra passim habeat cogitata, et à me demonstratis
# Date: 1678-02-14 (78-02-04)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Placcius
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,1 N. 166
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# Title: LBr. 458 · Justel
# Folios: Bl. 57 (from the shelfmark LBr 458 Bl. 57): 2 pages, canvases 113–114, page ids DE-611-HS-974894:0113 to DE-611-HS-974894:0114
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-974894&page=113
# Lines: 32 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.98
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## Folio 57r — DE-611-HS-974894:0113
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Febr. 1678.
Luanquam dpinosa pulchra passim
habeat cogitata, et a me demonstratis non
abhorrentia, in summa tamen, sententia
egus capitales probari minime possunt,
ac demonstratae non sunt; quicquid etiam
promittat. Substantia illi non nisi unica
est DEus. Creaturas putat esse modos, seu
affectiones DEl. Deum intellectu ac volun
tate carere, nec propter finem agere sed
quadam suae naturae necessitate; quemad
modum ea cCirculi essentia sequuntur ejus
proprietates. Mens nostra post mortem super-
erit quidem, sed non amplius percipcet
praesentia, aut volet futura, aut reminisce
tur praeteritorum. Nelicitas omnis secundum
ipsum, exuta incrustamentis speciosis, huc redit,
ut inevitabilem rerum necessitatem cogitantes,
contenti simues illis, quae eveniunt. Quanto me
liora ac veriora Christiani. De affectibus
equidem multa dicit egregia. Sed cum verbo

## Folio 57v — DE-611-HS-974894:0114
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relinquat, re tollat, providentiam et futuram
nescio
vita, ne sera an ulla vitae officia hominibus
persuadere possit. Sametsi non negem, his
etiam opinione sublatis, quosdam virtu
tem coluisse, ut Stoicos nonnullos: quorum
vel eo magis laudanda probitas est, quod
non aliis praemus poenisque, quam quae
secum fert honesta aut prava vita, exci
tarentur. Sed de his omnibus, ac de tota
opere judicum tuum eapectare malo.