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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

Thomas Hobbes

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy 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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short

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