Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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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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Knowledge is power.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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