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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

Thomas Hobbes

Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
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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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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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Design Man Philosophy
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
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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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

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