A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESDesire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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 it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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