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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
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
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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 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
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
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
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
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

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

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