“In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.”
Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
Context: In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.<!-- 23
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