Moreover, the virulence of the pest was the greater by reason that intercourse was apt to

convey it from the sick to the whole, just as fire devours thins dry or greasy when they are

brought close to it. Nay, the evil went yet even further, for not merely by speech or association with the sick was the malady communicated to the healthy with consequent peril of common death, but any that touched the clothes of the

sick or aught else that had been touched or used by them, seemed thereby to contract the disease

The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere...any

additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection

already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.

Whereas to curb the malice of servants who after the pestilence were idle and unwilling to serve

without securing excessive wages, it was recently ordained . . . That such

servants, both men and women, shall be bound to serve in return for

salaries and wages that were customary . . . 5 or 6 years earlier.

There were to be no marriages between those of immigrant and native

stock; that the English inhabitants of Ireland must employ the English

language and bear English names; that they must ride in the English way and have English apparel; that no Irishmen

were to be granted ecclesiastical benefices or admitted to monasteries

in the English parts of Ireland.

By nature, men love newfangledness. Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Love is blind. People can die of mere imagination.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

There's never a new fashion but it's old. There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work

well and hastily. Time and tide wait for no man.

We know little of the things for which we pray. Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave,

wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of

all men.

We say generally to all women of all countries that it is the duty of every

lady and maiden of the court, whether she be young or old, to be more prudent, more decorous, and

better schooled in all things than other women.

All wives of artisans should be very painstaking and diligent if they wish to

have the necessities of life. They should encourage their husbands or

their workmen to get to work early in the morning and work until late, for mark our words, there is no trade so good that if you neglect your work you will not have difficulty putting

bread on the table.

It is an art which does not seem to be an art. One must avoid

affectation and practice in all things a certain sprezzatura, disdain or

carelessness, so as to conceal art, and make whatever is done or said

appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about

it.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits

whenever they have free scope.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they

think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the

language of their country, Mithras.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

For I utterly dissent from those who are unwilling that the sacred Scriptures should be read by the unlearned translated into their vulgar tongue, as

though Christ had taught such subtleties that they can scarcely be understood even by

theologians. . . Christ wished his mysteries to be published as openly as possible. I wish that even

the weakest women should read the Gospel – should read the epistles of Paul. And I wish these

were translated into all languages, so that they might be read and understood, not only by Scots

and Irishmen, but also by Turks and Saracens.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life

on it a thousand times.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the

great pope, Self.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of

mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of

their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of

their sin, to eternal damnation.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of

India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish

doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to

seek it.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind -

and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have

their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his

acts being seven ages.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Fret not thy selfe because of evill doers, neither bee thou envious against the workers of iniquitie

For they shall soone be cut downe like the grasse; and wither as the

greene herbe.Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and

verely thou shalt be fed

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no

navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face

of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all,

continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and

short.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a

right to, but himself.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all

characters.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under

the shield of law and in the name of justice.”

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do

anything more than push it as far as it will go.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set

before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for

specific action, and a minority can.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

[Every individual generally] neither intends to promote the public interest,

nor knows how much he is promoting it. . . He is in this case, as in many cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an

end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worst for society

that it was not part of it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

“Labor, like all other things which are purchased and sold . . . has its

natural and its market price”

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the

most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of

subsistence are increased.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various

processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of

all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is

the measure of right and wrong.

The great fundamental law is this: that each of our leading

conceptions – each branch of our knowledge – passes successively

through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious; the Metaphysical or abstract; and the Scientific, or

positive

The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in

mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural

selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

God is dead!

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to

failure.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get

into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his

conduct in the world.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Add next year: Wesley, Wollstonecraft, de Gouges, Bacon,

Descartes