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

Thomas Hobbes

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
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
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
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
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel

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