Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
THOMAS HOBBESThe first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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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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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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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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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
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A great leap in the dark.
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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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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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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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Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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