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.
THOMAS HOBBESLife is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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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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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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