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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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 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
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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

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