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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
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
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy

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