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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

Thomas Hobbes

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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man 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
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
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
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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

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