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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Thomas Hobbes

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
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 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 first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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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