It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESCovenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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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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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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