Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
THOMAS HOBBESI often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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