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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

Giordano Bruno

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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Beneath Cloud Feel High More Purpose See Since Spread Wing
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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Alteration Change Consist Decay Difference Diversity Everything Generation Kind Make Property Species
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.
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All Clear Indication Other Own Receive Sign Testimony Virtue
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
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Condemn Condemned Fear Greater Maybe
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
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 have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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Held Hold Immortal Soul
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
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
Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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Always Change Everywhere Incessed Observe Position Thing Universe
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Believe Change Majority People
God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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Be God Infinite Must Too Universe
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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All Await Come Less Pass See Sentemnnce Substance Will
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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All Doth Fill God Simultaneously Single Soul Spirit Temple Thing Together Whole
The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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Apprehend Body Entire Power Present Some Soul Substance Universe Way

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

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