Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
THOMAS HOBBESFact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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