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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

Thomas Hobbes

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
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
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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

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