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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Thomas Hobbes

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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
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
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
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
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word

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