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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

Thomas Hobbes

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
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
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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
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
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Animal Body Philosophy Spirit
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
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
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
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
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

Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.

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