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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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 first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
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
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

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