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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
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
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
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
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power

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