Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESPower simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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For 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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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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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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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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