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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.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
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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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy

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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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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