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

Thomas Hobbes

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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short

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