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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
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?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
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
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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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