Some men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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