Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESPower simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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