The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
THOMAS HOBBES
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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