Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
THOMAS HOBBESNor 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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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