For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
THOMAS HOBBESSome men’s desires are without limits.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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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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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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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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A great leap in the dark.
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