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My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,

Giordano Bruno

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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Arrangeable Consider Corporeal Eternal Ex Formable Nihil Producible Rarefiable Substance
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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Begin Contraries End Birth Growth Middle Perfection Whatever
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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Death Dith Enchant Ever Happy Poverty Power Quick Rih Sorrow Unity
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Body But End Eye Immensity Space Vanquished
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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Accept Argument Denied End Explain Right Sophistic Understand Well
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 one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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Absolute Aught Better Greater Ine Infinite Itself Perfect Simplicity
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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Apprehensible Comprehend Delight Draw Knowable Thing Together
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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Clever Eternal Ever Field Globe Heaven Infinite Other Own Penetrate Soar Wile
My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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Asset Do Foal Great Little Money Son
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
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Center Circumference Neither Universe
With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Brain Luck Side Without
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Await Come Magnificent Pray Return Sir Trouble
When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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Being Consider Discover Immutably Neither Ourselves Substance Universe

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