As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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