As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.
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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
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Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.
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There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.
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In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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