it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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Knowledge is power.
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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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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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True’ and ‘false’ are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither ‘truth’ nor ‘falsehood.
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