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" Words are the money of fools. "
Thomas Hobbes
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" Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. "
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" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "
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" 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. "
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" Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. "
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" I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. "
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" Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. "
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" No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. "
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" Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. "
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Mother
" A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. "
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" Curiosity is the lust of the mind. "
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" The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. "
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" He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. "
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" I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. "
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" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "
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" Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. "
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" Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. "
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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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" Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. "
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