Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
GIORDANO BRUNOMy son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Time takes all and gives all
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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