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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.

Thomas Hobbes

Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
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
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
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
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 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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War

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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