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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
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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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
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
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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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