Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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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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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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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 Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.
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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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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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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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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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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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