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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
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
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
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner 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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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

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