Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBESWhatsoever 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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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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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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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