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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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 Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
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
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
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
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
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
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner

Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.

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