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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

Thomas Hobbes

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
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
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
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
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
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
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice

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