Some men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBESIf 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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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