It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery 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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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