As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBESEloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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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