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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
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy 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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
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
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
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

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

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