The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
THOMAS HOBBESit is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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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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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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