As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESI put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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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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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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What 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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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