Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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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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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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