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

Thomas Hobbes

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.

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