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For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all.

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De Cive (1642) Ch. 6
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In the state of nature, Profit is the measure of Right.

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De Cive
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The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly...

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The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Pt. I Human Nature (1640) Ch. 9
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To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume.

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Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose
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Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

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Liberty and Necessity (no. 111)
That's everything.

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