In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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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Knowledge is power.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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