Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery 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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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