It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
THOMAS HOBBESNow I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Knowledge is power.
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