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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
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
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

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