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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Words are the money of fools.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

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.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

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.

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

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.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.