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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.

Thomas Hobbes

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
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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

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