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Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

— Hugo Grotius

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Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

So is there no kind of life more wicked than that of mercenary Souldiers, who without any respect had to the equity of the Cause, fight only for plunder and pay.

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