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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
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
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
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
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
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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

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