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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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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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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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