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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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
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
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
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy

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