For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESFor prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
THOMAS HOBBESA great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESAnd if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
THOMAS HOBBESThe secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
THOMAS HOBBESWar 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.
THOMAS HOBBESForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
THOMAS HOBBESFact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
THOMAS HOBBESDesire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
THOMAS HOBBESEvery time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
THOMAS HOBBESThe Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
THOMAS HOBBESEloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
THOMAS HOBBESWhen all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
THOMAS HOBBESThe 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.
THOMAS HOBBESIt is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
THOMAS HOBBESSilence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
THOMAS HOBBESLook not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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