Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESNor 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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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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