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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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
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
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
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

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