Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESliberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Knowledge is power.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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God 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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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