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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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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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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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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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False Philosophy Truth
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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