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.
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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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