it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
THOMAS HOBBES
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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