That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Knowledge is power.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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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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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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