Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESConcerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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