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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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