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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner 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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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