If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
THOMAS HOBBESGod put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Concerning 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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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