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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

Thomas Hobbes

The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue 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
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read

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