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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep 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
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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
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
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
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap

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