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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

Thomas Hobbes

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 it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner 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
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty

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