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

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
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
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
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty

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

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