For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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.
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
The world is governed by opinion.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Nature itself cannot err
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
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.
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.
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.
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 best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
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