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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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
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
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden

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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