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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

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
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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 secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move 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
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
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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

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