Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.

Lord Hervey

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Lying Liars Lies

Author

Lord Hervey

Source

Memoirs of the Reign of George II

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1743 1740s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Lord Hervey. Memoirs of the Reign of George II, edited by J. W. Croker. London: John Murray, 1848.

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In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1741, no. 8.

Current Citation

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Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton
Source
Principia
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1687 1680s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.