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.
THOMAS HOBBESNo arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, 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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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