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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy 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
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom

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