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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

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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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

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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