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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.

Thomas Hobbes

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
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
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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy 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
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
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

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