Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESFor such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Knowledge is power.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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