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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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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