Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBESForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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