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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

Thomas Hobbes

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
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
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy 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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

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