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| A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. | | Uncategorized | |
| A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. | | Uncategorized | |
| All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. | | Mind | |
| Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. | | Uncategorized | |
| As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. | | Animals; Spirit | |
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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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. | | Uncategorized | |
| He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. | | Uncategorized | |
| I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark. | | Death and dying | |
| I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. | | Uncategorized | |
| In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. | | Uncategorized | |
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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. | | Laughter | |
| Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. | | Leisure | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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| No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. | | Errors | |
