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vine aspects until it finds satisfaction; and since the intellect is one of the tones of our soul, by means of the soul it composes the form of the body where it dwells, according to its volition. And when it has to reproduce a human body, it takes pleasure in repeating the body which it originally created; whence it follows that they who fall in love are prone to become enamoured of what resembles them.

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There are the four powers: memory, intellect sensuality and lust. The first two are intellectual, the others sensual. Of the five senses, sight, hearing, smell are with difficulty prevented ; touch and taste not at all. Taste follows smell in the case of dogs and other greedy animals.

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Why does the eye perceive things more clearly in dreams than with the imagination when one is awake?

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Although time is included among continuous quantities, being indivisible and immaterial it does not altogether fall into the scope of geometry, by which it is divided into figures and bodies of infinite variety, which are seen to be continuous inasmuch as they are visible and material, but it agrees only with its first principles,

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