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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man

Thomas Hobbes

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
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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Death Philosophy Victory War World
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move 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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
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
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner

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