Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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?
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other 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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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