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.
THOMAS HOBBESFear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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