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

Thomas Hobbes

whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
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 secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War

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