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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

For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother 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
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
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
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
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
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
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek

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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