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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
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
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
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
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
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
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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Game Justice Law
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy

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