Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
THOMAS HOBBESHell is truth seen too late.
More Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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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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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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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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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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Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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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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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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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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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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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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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Hell is truth seen too late.
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Every 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.
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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