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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

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Whatsoever is, is in God.

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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

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To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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All is One (Nature, God)

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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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God is not He who is, but That which is.

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