For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
THOMAS HOBBESFear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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