Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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