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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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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 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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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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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 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.
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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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