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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.

Thomas Hobbes

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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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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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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