The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESFor 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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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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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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