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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

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
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
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
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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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

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