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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.

Thomas Hobbes

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
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
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
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

Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.

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