Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
GIORDANO BRUNOThe 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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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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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
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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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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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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 cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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