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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

Thomas Hobbes

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
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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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom

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