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

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

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

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.