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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Man Philosophy Secure Strength Word
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
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

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