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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Curious Lust Mind One Liner
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
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
The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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Conscience Judge Man Philosophy Thing
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
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
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
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
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
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
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel

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