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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Authority Deep Law One Liner Wisdom
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy 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
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
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
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
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

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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