For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
THOMAS HOBBESBy 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
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A great leap in the dark.
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