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?
THOMAS HOBBESPower simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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