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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Giordano Bruno

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Giordano Bruno
Died: 1600
Died: February 17
Astrologer
Astronomer
Dominican Friar
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
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University Teacher
Writer
Filippo Bruno
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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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