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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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
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
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
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
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
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
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand

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

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