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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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
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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue 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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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