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

Thomas Hobbes

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
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
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

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