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
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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