The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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