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.
THOMAS HOBBESwhatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Knowledge is power.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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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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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