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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law

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