For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESAs a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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