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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
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
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
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing

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