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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.

Thomas Hobbes

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
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
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
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
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

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