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

Thomas Hobbes

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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
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
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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

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