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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

Thomas Hobbes

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
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
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
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
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
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
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
The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Man Philosophy War

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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