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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?

Thomas Hobbes

Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
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
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy

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