Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESPhilosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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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 Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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