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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature 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
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
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner 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

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