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Knowledge is power.

Thomas Hobbes

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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
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
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
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

Knowledge is power.

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