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A great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire 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
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
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
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
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
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read

A great leap in the dark.

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