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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Knowledge is power.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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