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

Thomas Hobbes

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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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 not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
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’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read

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