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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Thomas Hobbes

whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
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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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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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Death Philosophy Victory War World
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
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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