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The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
Nature itself cannot err
A great leap in the dark
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
Words are the money of fools.
Reason is the Soul of the Law.
The reputation of power IS power.
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
The world is governed by opinion.
No arts, no letters - no society.
The law is the public conscience.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
No man can be judge to his own cause.
Covenants without swords are but words.
Corporations are "worms in the body politic"
If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
Where there is no common power, there is no law
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth
I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.
The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.
I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
