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There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. this renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.
-Gottfried Leibniz
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There Is No Argument So Cogent Not

Gottfried Leibniz
There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. this renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.
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