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

Mad Man Philosophy
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
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
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
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
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

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