Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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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 is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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