The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESConcerning 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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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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