Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBESGive an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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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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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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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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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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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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