The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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