Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBESForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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