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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner 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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short

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