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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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 not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner 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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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
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
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

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