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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

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
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
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
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

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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