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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.

Thomas Hobbes

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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy 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
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
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
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’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue

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