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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

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move 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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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

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