The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESEloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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