Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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 to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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