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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

Thomas Hobbes

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
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
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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False Philosophy Truth
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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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Man Power Price Value Worth
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

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