The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESConcerning 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 such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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