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.
THOMAS HOBBESA 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 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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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