Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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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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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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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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