I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.- Thomas Hobbes
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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