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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.

Thomas Hobbes

The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep 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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
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
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

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