The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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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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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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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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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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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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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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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