Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              ſurdum effingis. </s>
              <s id="s.001695">Equidem mihi planè perſuadeo, non alio
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              animo id à te factum, quàm ſtudio veritatis; ſed quia tamen
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              aliter factum eſt, quàm intenderes, spero tibi non ingratu
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              fore, ſi quam quæſiisti, atque optaſti veritatem, eam tibi ab
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              <s id="s.001696">Ego verò, Religioſſime Vir, ita habeo me, vt
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              exiſtimem licere per tuam æquitatem, habere ipſam
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              tui cauſſam, à veritatis cauſſa ſeiunctam. </s>
              <s id="s.001697">Nam te
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              quidem ſemper eo loco habeo, vt reputem virum non
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              modò piiſſimum, optimumque, & mei amantiſſi­
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              mum: ſed etiam peritiſſimum, ſolertiſſimum, ſtudio­
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              ſiſſimum veritatis. </s>
              <s id="s.001698">Veritatem autem eo loco habeo,
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              vt Eius amore, qui ſeipſum eſſe Veritatem dixit, ſan­
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              ctiſſimum reputem, ipſam, quantum agnoſcitur, nulli
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              rei non præhabere, & à conditione perſona (aliunde
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              licet cariſſimæ, ac venerabiliſſimæ, quæ eius poſſeſſio­
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              nem ſibi vendicet) quaſi ſepoſitam ſpectare. </s>
              <s id="s.001699">Ac
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              tu quidem nunquam voluiſti, opinor, vt quia plurimi
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              tuam virtutem, amicitiamque facerem: eapropter, ſi
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              quidquam tibi videretur, quaſi tabulas vnà obſigna­
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              rem; & in tuam iurans ſententiam, quicquid diceres,
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              indubium haberem; tuaque permotus authoritate, non
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              hærerem, quin veritas planè, prorsúmque à te ſtaret.
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              <s id="s.001700">Quare iniurium haud-quaquam fuit, habere te vnum
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              ex iis viris doctis, qui quapiam in re falli poſſint, &
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              cùm habeant ſe homines, alienum non putent à ſe, vt
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              errare poſſe, ſic poſſe ab aliis ſecus ſentientibus mone­
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              ri. </s>
              <s id="s.001701">Ego itaque, non quòd ſim profeſſus eſſe eum m
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              qui docere te veritatem aliquam poſſem, ſed quòd te
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              veritatem ſequi tuâ doctrinâ non eſſem perſuaſus, </s>
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