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

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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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False Philosophy Truth
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
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
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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
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
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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

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

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