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" A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. "
Thomas Hobbes
Man
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" Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. "
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" The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. "
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" That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. "
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" The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. "
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" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "
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" Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. "
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" Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. "
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" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "
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