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

Thomas Hobbes

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
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
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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
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
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
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

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

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