Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
THOMAS HOBBESIf I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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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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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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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 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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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 time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Knowledge is power.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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