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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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