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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command 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
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 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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

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