Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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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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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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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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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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