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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Thomas Hobbes

Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
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
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

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