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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.

Thomas Hobbes

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
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
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
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
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
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
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
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
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

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