It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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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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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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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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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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Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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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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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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