Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESAll acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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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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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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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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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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.
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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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Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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