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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
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
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power

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

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