It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
THOMAS HOBBESSome men’s desires are without limits.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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A great leap in the dark.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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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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Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Knowledge is power.
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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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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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