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

Thomas Hobbes

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
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason 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
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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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Mad Man Philosophy
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
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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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom

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