- 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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- Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.
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- Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
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- Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
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- Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
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- Laughter is nothing else but a 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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- Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
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- Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.
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- The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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- Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
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