Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESDesire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Knowledge is power.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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