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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.

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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.
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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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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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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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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
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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.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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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.
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The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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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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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
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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.
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Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God that is to say into Eternal life that is to say to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing so it is recovered by the remitting of mens sins.
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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
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If all things were equally in all men nothing would be prized.
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Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
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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.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
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The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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