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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

Thomas Hobbes

The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
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
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
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
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
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
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
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

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

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