whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
THOMAS HOBBESThat Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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 time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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