What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
THOMAS HOBBESNow I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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A great leap in the dark.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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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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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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