That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
THOMAS HOBBESA 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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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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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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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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