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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.

Thomas Hobbes

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
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
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 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
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 Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man 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
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.

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