It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESWords are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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