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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.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
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
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother 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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire 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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