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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise

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