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Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

On Medicine (1020)

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

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God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change.

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I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

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