For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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