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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.

Thomas Hobbes

whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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 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
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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’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
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
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
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
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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

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