Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBESWhen 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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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