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 HOBBESWhat 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?
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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War 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.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
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It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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