The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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A great leap in the dark.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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