Hell is truth seen too late.
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 it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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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 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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