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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
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
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
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy

It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.

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