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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.

Giordano Bruno

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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Apprehend Body Entire Power Present Some Soul Substance Universe Way
I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Day Move Right
I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
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Accept Cause Compelling Regard True Understood Wish
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Like Other Own Paraphrase Planet Really Sky Star Sun
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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Immobile Infinite One Universe
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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Base Low Majority Masses Merely Mind One Proof Think Wish
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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Exist God People Substance Universal
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Button Buttoned Coat Crooked First Rest Wrongly
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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Absent Future More One Pain Present Stupid Thing
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.
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Captive Carry Depth Divine Down Enslave Love Lowest Magnifies Racism Support
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Excellence God Greatness Kingdom Made Magnified Manifest
Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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Being Capacity Dignity Enhold Everything Himself Smallest
There is one basic cause of all effects.
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Basic Cause Effect One
I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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Declare Earth Exist Infinite World
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Center Circumference Neither Universe
In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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Consider Infinite Necessity Now Place Providence Space Universe

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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