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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue 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
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
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

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