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1 1 | better for us not to know a thing, because He has not revealed 2 2 | and substance of the whole thing.~ 3 4 | being born, indeed, is one thing, and being made is another,-- 4 4 | called the parent of the thing that is made: in this sense 5 6 | designation of an animate thing or an inanimate one. The 6 6 | receives motion from some other thing when it is swayed (from 7 6 | receive motion from some other thing is characteristic of a body, 8 6 | How could an unsubstantial thing propel solid objects? But 9 6 | proceeds from some other thing must needs be second to 10 6 | proceeds out of another thing except by the process of 11 7 | corporeality. For an incorporeal thing suffers nothing, not having 12 7 | as far as every corporeal thing is capable of suffering, 13 10| function of the soul--were one thing; and to emit breath--the 14 10| the spirit--were another thing. Now it is not in all animals 15 10| are wanting to any living thing ? There is that Herophilus, 16 10| theirs. Take any living thing whatever, be it the tiniest 17 10| think it possible for a thing to live without breath; 18 10| then why not suppose that a thing might breathe without lungs? 19 10| breathe" is not the same thing as "to live." It must, however, 20 10| coalesce, since to live is one thing, and to breathe is another. 21 10| supposing that the day is one thing, and the light, which is 22 10| incidental to the day, is another thing, whereas day is only the 23 10| the light itself. For a thing is itself identical with 24 18| attained. How, then, can a thing be superior to that which 25 18| the agent through which a thing exists is inferior to the 26 18| exists is inferior to the thing itself; and that the intellect 27 18| the instrument by which a thing's existence is sustained 28 18| sustained is associated with the thing itself.~ 29 19| to hang on to the highest thing, preferring as they do to 30 24| injurious to memory. One thing is certain, that souls in 31 32| Besides, a substance is one thing, and the nature of that 32 32| that substance is another thing; inasmuch as the substance 33 32| special property of one given thing, whereas the nature thereof 34 38| the grant: "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat 35 38| consideration, that it is one thing to desire by natural instinct, 36 38| natural instinct, and another thing to desire through necessity; 37 38| desire through necessity; one thing to desire as a property 38 38| property of being, another thing to desire for a special 39 40| It is only a ministering thing, and its ministration is 40 40| personal quality; but it is a thing of quite a different substance 41 43| certainly not a supernatural thing, as some philosophers will 42 44| Theopompus says the same thing about Thrasymedes; but Nero 43 44| constitution. If indeed such a thing were told me to have happened 44 45| it for a time. It is one thing to shake, it is another 45 45| to shake, it is another thing to move; one thing to destroy, 46 45| another thing to move; one thing to destroy, another thing 47 45| thing to destroy, another thing to agitate. That, therefore, 48 46| impossible for it to be the only thing to be exempted from the 49 57| It is either a very fine thing to be detained in these 50 57| away; or else a very bad thing indeed to be there associated