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

Thomas Hobbes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
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
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
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 condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War

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

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