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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner 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
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
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
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
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner 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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
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
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
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

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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