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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

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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence

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