Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
THOMAS HOBBESWhere 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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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?
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