Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.
For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Nature itself cannot err
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
The world is governed by opinion.
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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