Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
THOMAS HOBBESFact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Knowledge is power.
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