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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

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
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
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
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
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
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy

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