Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESBy consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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