Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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