What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
GIORDANO BRUNO
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Giordano Bruno86 quotes“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 in body, but present in spirit.
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