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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3470/">Quotes by <em>Hobbes, Thomas</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

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"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

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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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"Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter."

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"Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

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"Leisure is the mother of Philosophy."

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"No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."

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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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"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."

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