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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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 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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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

And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.

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