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" All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. "
Facts
Horror
Intellectual
" A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. "
Man
Away
Right
" A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. "
Judgment
Same
May
" A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. "
Him
Words
Wise Man
" Curiosity is the lust of the mind. "
Lust
Mind
Curiosity
" During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. "
Power
Live
Man
" Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. "
Invisible
Natural
Religion
" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "
War
Two
Force
" He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. "
Still
Prison
Overcome
" I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. "
Voyage
Dark
Leap
" In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. "
Profit
Nature
Measure
" I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. "
Power
Death
Desire
" It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. "
Authority
Legal
Law
" Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. "
Laughter
Glory
Others
" Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. "
Philosophy
Leisure
Mother
" No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. "
Error
Own
Nor
" Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. "
Force
Same
Believing
" Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. "
Experience
Men
Time
" Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. "
Knowledge
Fact
Consequences
" Such is the nature of men, 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. "
Will
Nature
Men
" Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. "
Pleasure
Man
Men
" Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. "
Which
Passion
Glory
" That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. "
Man
Men
Think
" The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. "
War
Condition
Everyone
" The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. "
Die
Day
Death
" The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. "
Future
Alone
Present
" The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. "
Long
Understood
Protect
" The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. "
Empire
Sitting
Roman Empire
" The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. "
Dead
Envy
Praise
" The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. "
Man
Privilege
Absurdity
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