For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESTrue’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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