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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

Thomas Hobbes

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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War

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