Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters … - Thomas Hobbes

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There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

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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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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

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