As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESliberty, 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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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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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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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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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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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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