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?
THOMAS HOBBESFor prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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