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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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 Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
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
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
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
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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
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
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy

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