As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESLife itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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 condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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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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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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No 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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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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