It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
THOMAS HOBBESSome men’s desires are without limits.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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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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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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