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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.
Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Age: 91 †
Born: 1588
Born: April 5
Died: 1679
Died: December 4
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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.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.
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And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
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Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
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Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
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To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity Reason is the pace Encrease of Science, the way and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
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