Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
THOMAS HOBBESWhat 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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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