Some men’s desires are without limits.
THOMAS HOBBESFor 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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