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There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.

Giordano Bruno

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Condemn Condemned Fear Greater Maybe
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Like Other Own Paraphrase Planet Really Sky Star Sun
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
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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All Everything Occur Perfect Thing Unity Universe
For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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All Aspect Change Diminishing Fact Nothing Space Substance Thing Wandering
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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Encduce Eternal Expand Immutable Itself One Only Philosophy Same
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Bridal Desire Me Urge While
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Excellence God Greatness Kingdom Made Magnified Manifest
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
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
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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Earth Glorify One Single Thousand World
The 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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Alter Always Element Eternal Preserve Producible Substance True
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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Antiquity Authority Beg Faith Reject
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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Arouse Beautiful Contrary Disgrace Feeling Hate Love Sight
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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Exist God People Substance Universal
From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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Coincidence Compas Contraries Difficult Every Other True Ultimate

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