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.
GIORDANO BRUNOIt may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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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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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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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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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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Time takes all and gives all
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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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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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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