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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
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

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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