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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

Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
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 first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason

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