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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
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
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
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap

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