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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Knowledge is power.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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