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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.

Thomas Hobbes

Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
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
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War

Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.

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