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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
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
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
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power

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