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.
THOMAS HOBBESEvery part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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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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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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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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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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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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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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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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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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Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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A great leap in the dark.
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