The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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