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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.

Thomas Hobbes

Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
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
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
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe

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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