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| A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. |
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| A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. |
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| All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. |
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| Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. |
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| As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. |
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| Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. |
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| During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. |
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| For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. |
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| Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. |
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| He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. |
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| I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark. |
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| I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. |
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| In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. |
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| Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. |
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| Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. |
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| Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. |
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| No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. |
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