And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
THOMAS HOBBESAnd 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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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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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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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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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