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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.

Thomas Hobbes

Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
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
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
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

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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