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Full Idea
The reasons for particular truths rest wholly on the more general ones of which they are mere instances.
Gist of Idea
Particular truths are just instances of general truths
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 1.01)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.83
A Reaction
Clearly particulars have their own distinctive truth, but the Leibniz case seems to be that a particular is a unique intersection for an array of general truths - and nothing else. Audrey Hepburn's smile has no generalities to it.