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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
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
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 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
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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

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