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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.

Thomas Hobbes

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
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
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand

Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.

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