Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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Knowledge is power.
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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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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