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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Knowledge is power.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, 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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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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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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