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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Thomas Hobbes

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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
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
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
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
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man

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