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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Thomas Hobbes

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace 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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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
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 many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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 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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

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