Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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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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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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