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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.

Thomas Hobbes

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner 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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy

It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is an injustice to none of them.

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