It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESLook not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Knowledge is power.
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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