If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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Wise men are instructed by reason men of less understanding, by experience the most ignorant, by necessity the beasts, by nature.
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