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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue

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