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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Thomas Hobbes

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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
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
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

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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