Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESEloquence, 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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Knowledge is power.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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