If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
THOMAS HOBBESIn 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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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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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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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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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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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