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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
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
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
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
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

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