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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
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
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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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