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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
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
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
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
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
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
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
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature 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
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
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
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

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