What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
GIORDANO BRUNOThere is one basic cause of all effects.
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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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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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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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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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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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Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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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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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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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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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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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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