Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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