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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
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
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
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
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War

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