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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
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
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 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
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
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
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

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