Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESFor it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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