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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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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Death Philosophy Victory War World
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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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
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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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
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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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
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

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