No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.Thomas Hobbes
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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Words are the money of fools.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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