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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire 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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
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

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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