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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.

Thomas Hobbes

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue 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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short

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