ThursdayJul 02, 2026
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them; but they are the money of fools.
Covenants without the sword are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Now I am about to take my last voyage, A great leap in the dark.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, And dependence of one fact upon another.
Words are the counters of wise man, and the money of fools.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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.
Geometry, which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. ['This' is that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume.]
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
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