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- "A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, ..."
- "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so ..."
- "All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the ..."
- "As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in ..."
- "Curiosity is the lust of the mind. "
- "Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, ..."
- "Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth ..."
- "Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "
- "I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. "
- "In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. "
- "Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some ..."
- "Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. "
- "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and ..."
- "No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. "
- "Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. "
- "Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things ..."
- "Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. "
- "Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be ..."
- "That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for ..."
- "The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or ..."
- "The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past ..."
