I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
THOMAS HOBBESPhilosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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