I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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Concerning 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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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