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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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Death Desire Man Philosophy Power
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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
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

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