I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
THOMAS HOBBESWhen all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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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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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