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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
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
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
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
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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

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