“O conhecimento de qualquer coisa, dado que todas as coisas tem causas, não é adquirido ou conhecido por completo a menos que seja conhecido por suas causas.”
"Da Medicina, (c. 1020) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1020Avicenna-Medicine.html
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
"On Medicine, (c. 1020) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1020Avicenna-Medicine.html
Contexto: The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. And because health and sickness and their causes are sometimes manifest, and sometimes hidden and not to be comprehended except by the study of symptoms, we must also study the symptoms of health and disease. Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. Of these causes there are four kinds: material, efficient, formal, and final.
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“Feliz aquele que conseguiu compreender a causa das coisas.”
Variante: Feliz aquele que chegou a conhecer as causa das coisas.
“Eu amo Mickey Mouse mais do que qualquer mulher que eu já tinha conhecido.”
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
citado em "New woman": Volume 15,Edições 1-3 - página 149, Allied Publications, 1985
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“Qualquer que seja a causa natural, o pecado é a verdadeira causa de todos os terremotos.”
and sin the moral cause of earthquakes, ( whatever the natural cause may be)
"Sermão CXXXVIII" (1750) in "The works of the Rev. John Wesley", Volume 7 - Página 384 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=T-I7AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA384, John Wesley - J. & J. Harper, 1826
Analytical Institutions in Four Books: Originally Written in Italian (1801), Vol. I, Introduction
