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Knowledge is power.

Thomas Hobbes

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
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
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
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy

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