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By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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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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