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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Thomas Hobbes

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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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 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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner

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