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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?

Thomas Hobbes

The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence

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