A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Every 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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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What 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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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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