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
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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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 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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Knowledge is power.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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