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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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 such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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 a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner

The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

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