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

Thomas Hobbes

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
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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 understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice

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

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