Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
THOMAS HOBBESSome men’s desires are without limits.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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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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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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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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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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