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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word

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