A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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