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A great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

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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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
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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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
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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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
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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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word

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