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.
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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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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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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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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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