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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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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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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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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

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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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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 5th, 1588

Died: December 4th, 1679

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