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.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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A great leap in the dark.
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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Life is 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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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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