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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

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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
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
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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

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