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“The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.”

— Pliny the Elder

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Title: Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder
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Elder, Pliny the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder

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