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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.

Thomas Hobbes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue 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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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

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