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# Catalogue record: 52768 — Leibniz an [Bierling]
# Incipit: Optandi magis qvam sperandi sunt sapientes
# Date: 1713-03
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Bierling
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II (assigned, not yet published)
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=52768&katnr=K+6179
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-358576
# Title: LBr. 67 · Bierling
# Folios: Bl. 43–44 (from the shelfmark LBr 67 Bl. 43-44): 4 pages, canvases 85–88, page ids DE-611-HS-358576:0085 to DE-611-HS-358576:0088
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-358576&page=85
# Lines: 91 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.94
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## Folio 43r — DE-611-HS-358576:0085
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chintela S. At Varuum
cru Ma ceu.
resp
ar Illusrris alque l’acellenti ssime
egi cum voluptate, qua circa sententiam illuotris
Bomasi de discrimine d fontibus insti, decori,
hon esti monere set placuit. Sunt in ejus trasitis
sateor, non nulla, qua oberiorem expositionem
postulare videntur, quam forte dabit fir celebe
rimus si manum expaliendo iuri naturio, d in
ordinem redigensis, quo spartim esidit, atque
Subinse correxit d mutauit, denuo ipsum
admouere contingat.
dui aliquos in sapientia progressus fecerunt
nullo prorsus iniperio opus dabere, sed solo conu
silio regi posse. non aomittis. Addis: oportet
magnam esse sapientiam, cui omnia tuto fidas

## Folio 43v — DE-611-HS-358576:0086
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dauristinui sunt tales sapientes
cognoscuntur. Na est, vir illustris. veruntaucen
dos paucos, immo paucissimos imperio non ojuis
habere, quamsiu in sapientia persistunt, nec
ad contrarios mores, quod olique fieri potest
convertuntur, cum Shomasio eresiderim. Ob
servant illi leges, sed non coacte, vel ex imperio
sed sponte, orgente ratione  conscientia. usto
legem non esse positam, ad coactionem scilicet
quod attinet, ipse saulus adserit.
Imimortalitatem anivia humana naturali ratione
cognosci posse, Bouasius non aduibeit Stan
fuit potius, dodtrinam hanc ex sola Scriptura
Petendam tamquam articulum fidei, ad eoque
non pertinere ad philos ophiau. Non confunu
sendum esse lumen rationis, quos viam ad
felicitatem ducis vitae mons trat, jum lumme
Ex responsione
optandi magis quam sperandi sunt sapientes, qui consilio
rectae rationis semper regantur. Haec ad ideam optimae eipublicae
pertinent, quam effingimus ut quantum fat est accedamus. Inviris
ncaunfe
eberrimis, pufendorfio, omao et senistiano thomasio et sequalibs
hoc maxime cinstrobo, quod immortalitatem anigmae polnasque et, plamia
trans hanc vitatm praesentem sola revelatione ognopi arbitrantur

## Folio 44r — DE-611-HS-358576:0087
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pythagorei e platonia rectius sapiebant. Ego in Epustoca ad Bohmerum de
ps aufendorfiano  efficiorum libello data notavi, ho Theologiae natu
ralis funcamentum etiam cujurs de porulo manfestum esse, qui divinani
providentiam ejasque consequentias agnoscira; sepositis licet etaphysiit
argumentis, quae invicta habems. imperfectissima est doctitua,
reuelationis. Intelligit vero per immortalitatem
aninud exisdentiam substantialem separatam.
lura habet in Cautelis circa proecognita surispri
ap. NII. S. 15 9b
Rua sub finem epistola mones, Deum concipi
posse ut legislatorem, sed non ut legislatorun
despoticum, quam pater, doctor, ec. etiam sint
degislatores, quamnis non despotici. peccata
panire semetipsa, quum omnis improbus sit
deantontimorumenos, bene facta promio
semet ipsa afficere: oti plane egregia sunt,
ita Tomusu sententia congruere opinor
Cyo sanc nidil ad monendes donrinum ad vir-
futem, d’auocausos a vitiis animos efficacius
arbitror, quam si ipsis ortendatur connexio
seu danionia factorum Leventuum, ex hari
monia onmeisi a Dec ordinata flueus
de moribus, justitia officiis, quae solis hujus vitae bonis nititur; et inutilises
proiidentrae doctima sublata iumortalitate
nec plos ad doligandos homine
effica quam di Epicurectum providentia carentes. Itaque si deds nobis non
jndibit puincipia unde immortalitatem nosceremus,  inanis est Thectogra
naturalis nec quicquam contra atheismum practicum valet, et licetat
hominibus esse Attheis ante revelationem, neque enim in hac vita
se vindicat divinitas.

## Folio 44v — DE-611-HS-358576:0088
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nson est necesse ad animae immortalitatem tuendam, ut sit
substantia Teparata. potest enem semper induta manere
subtili corpore, quale ego etiam angelis tribuo.
ude casere necesse est sententiam sufendor fian
nam, omnes actiones in se e sua natura esse
indifferentes. Teligi nonnulla duc spectantia
in lineamentis rieis p. 112. obi scia graphiam
syotematis etsici adumbraui. Hanc quum
prolircius claborare in animo habeam, rem
faceres midi gratissimam, sir Muctris, si
quodam suppecitares, qua meus dac se re
mesitationes javare possent. Sperare doc iabot
SuA dumanitas, tot speciminibus miidi cogui
ta. Tale,  bono orbis eruditi diu sospes de
incolumis vive.
S. Mlariri de Excell. Nom.
eant cultu, stusio, obque
sequio desitus
certins