Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Words are the money of fools.
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Give an inch he'll take an ell.
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.