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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?

Thomas Hobbes

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law
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
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
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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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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short

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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