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

Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
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
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
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
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
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
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy 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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
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
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom

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

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