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- All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
- What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that,…
- By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
- By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words,…
- The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without…
- From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether…
- Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or…
- The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
- The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence,…
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