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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

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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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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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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

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