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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
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
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
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
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word

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