True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Every 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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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