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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

Thomas Hobbes

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
True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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False Philosophy Truth
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
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
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
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

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