For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESWhat is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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