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.
THOMAS HOBBESGod put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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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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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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