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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Always Carry Lock Man Natural Philosophy War
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
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy

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