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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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 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
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy

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