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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Thomas Hobbes

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBES

Literature One Liner Philosophy
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
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
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word

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