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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.

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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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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
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 Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue 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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word

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