A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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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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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