Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBES
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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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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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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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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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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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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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