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Everyone knows that amongst the Philosophers it is a commonplace that the monster in the body is a monster in the soul, and being a monster in the soul, what can be expected of such a person, what should become of him, if not evils and misfortune.

Giambattista della Porta

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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank; An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Giambattista della Porta

Giambattista della Porta

Born: 1535
Died: February 4, 1615 (aged 80)
Bio: Giambattista della Porta, also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation.

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