The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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