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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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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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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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Words are the money of fools.

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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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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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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 5th, 1588

Died: December 4th, 1679

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