Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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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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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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