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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?

Thomas Hobbes

Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
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

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