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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

— Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (1651)

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For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

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And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.

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Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

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For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

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For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

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