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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.

Thomas Hobbes

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
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
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
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden

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