For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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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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?
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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