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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

Thomas Hobbes

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War

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