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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

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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
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
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
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

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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