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

Thomas Hobbes

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
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

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