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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.

Thomas Hobbes

In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
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
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
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

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