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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.

Thomas Hobbes

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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
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
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word

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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