Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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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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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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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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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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